They did not have the same degree of patience, however, as the more subdued feminists, and they wanted change now. They wanted to choose whether they had children, whether they got married, and whether they could or could not perform a certain task instead of allowing a man or group of men (the government, for example) to choose for them. They stuck by the posters of 'Rosie the Riveter' that were around during the war and depicted a woman doing a man's job - and doing it well.
These women saw themselves as strong and capable and tough, and they were also much more in tune with their sexuality than past generations had been. They were not afraid of being women. The sexuality issue was confusing and uncomfortable for a lot of men. Men saw women as sexual objects, but they were not comfortable with the idea that they women saw themselves that same way. It made them feel as though there had been a shift in power, which was a serious concern for a gender that had been taught since virtually the beginning of time that it was the stronger gender, the one that should be in control, and the one that should ultimately be making the rules for all of society. Not all women in the 1950s pushed for change, and not all men resisted it, but there was a large societal divide when it came to some of the more serious issues that were being culturally addressed.
Even though feminism in the 1950s had begun quietly, by the end of the decade the radical feminists had made sure that it was too loud to be ignored. As it spilled over into the '60s it took on a desperate and sometimes dangerous quality that it did not have during the '50s. Women might have not...
difficulty, wealthy white American settlers created and dominated a stable plantation society in which slaves, Indians, and poorer whites accepted the justice of their subordination. There is sound evidence that slavery had spread through America long before 1776. Like a vile cancer, slavery spread throughout with the early settlers. As they arrived from Europe, white settlers began to push inward. As they moved into vast uncharted territories, they brought along
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We will confine ourselves to saying that the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love."(Hugo, 145) in the endeavor to survive and sustain her child she is forced to become a prostitute, thus enduring extreme humiliation. For Hugo thus, she represents another 'miserable' being, part of the dregs of society who is nevertheless pure and luminous because of her inner goodness, the divine
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Particularly, as slavery and segregation had contributed to the establishment of a wealthy ownership class in the United States, so had the nature of its 20th century consumer culture helped to enforce separate racial societies. Thus, even as white women struggled for recognition and equal rights, the climb from domestic servitude would be a great deal more arduous for a female African American culture which had been conditions through centuries of slavery toward assumed domestic servitude.
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